PMI VectorLink Zimbabwe

Objectives

PMI VectorLink’s key goal and objectives are to:

• Conduct IRS campaigns targeting structures in specific districts to achieve high coverage rates (97.3% in 2020 and 97.4% in 2021);
• Transition to include technical assistance to the NMCP to support IRS in five districts of Mashonaland East Province;
• Provide on-the-job training for entomological surveillance in prioritized districts;
• Continue routine entomological surveillance in three sentinel sites and monitor insecticide resistance in four sentinel sites;
• Collaborate with the NMCP to implement and strengthen COVID-19 mitigation measures during the IRS campaign;
• Support the 2022 IRS campaign with technical assistance in environmental compliance (EC) and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to five districts in Mashonaland East Province, including the two previously PMI-supported districts for direct spraying implementation – Mutoko and Mudzi;
• Support IRS trainings in Mashonaland East Province focusing on EC and M&E activities to improve the overall spraying campaign;
• Share with NMCP VectorLink’s best practices and lessons learnt from the 2021 IRS campaign to support the national 2022 IRS campaign;
• Conduct insecticide resistance monitoring in four sentinel sites – three in Mashonaland East Province and one in Manicaland – and wall bioassay, vector density monitoring, and other vector behavioral studies in three sentinel sites of Mashonaland East Province;
• Provide NMCP with technical support to close gaps in their DHIS 2 system to develop entomology indicators, training manuals and standard operating procedures and train NMCP’s national level staff;
• In coordination with the NMCP and partners, implement a landscape analysis on unreached populations/IRS refusals in high refusal rate districts.
• Develop the supplemental environmental assessment (SEA) given that the current one is expiring in October 2022.